verse of the day

Friday 1 June 2012

A holy life.[ Ephesians 1 v 4 ]

We considered yesterday if we are to have are to  have a saving relationship with God we must know Christ as our Saviour, well what about the Christian?,as we look at this  15th Psalm we see that there is a tremendous high standard demanded of us,and if we are honest,we ackowledge that  we often fail to meet that standard.First of all let us remember that the goal that we are always to aim at, is holiness,this is not there to mock us,but to challenge us, and we must never loose sight of that goal.Of course we do fail yet this does not effect our standing before God,my children our still my children even when they do wrong,but the wrong must be dealt with,because it will have consequences,hinder our prayers, rob us of our peace,grieve,quench the Holy Spirit.It is John in His epistle who stresses the importance of walking in the light[1 John 1v7 ]if we are sinning we are not walking in the light,and our fellowship with God is affected.We are saved by grace, that  means we are accepted unconditionally,but grace is never a licence to sin[ Galations 5 v13 ],going back to what I said earlier,we must always rise to the challenge of being holy.The old hymn declares ,Oh to grace how great a debtor,daily Im constrained to be,we owe God everything,He has saved us,we will always be in His debt,we can never repay that debt,but surely in gratitude we can this day rise to the challenge of a holy life.
A prayer..../ Dear God we praiseYou  for Your grace that saved us we owe everything to You and always will, help us in gratitude this day to be Holy in Jesus name Amen /

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